Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) started the day on Thursday, with a price increase of 0.72% at $18.23, before settling in for the price of $18.10 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, KTOS posted a 52-week range of $12.12-$21.60.
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The company of the Industrials sector’s yearbook sales growth during the past 5- year span was recorded 11.00%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -15.14%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 0.43%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $149.16 million, simultaneously with a float of $145.53 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $2.72 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $18.18, while the 200-day Moving Average is $17.14.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Aerospace & Defense Industry. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 2.44%, in contrast to 76.38% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Mar 25 ’24, this organization’s President, US Division sold 7,000 shares at the rate of 17.80, making the entire transaction reach 124,584 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 419,821. Preceding that transaction, on Mar 15 ’24, Company’s President, STC Division sold 3,500 for 17.40, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 60,883. This particular insider is now the holder of 292,944 in total.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) Earnings and Revenue Records
In the latest quarterly report released, which was put into the public domain on 12/30/2023, the organization reported $0.12 earnings per share (EPS) for the three months, surpassing the consensus estimate (set at $0.09) by $0.03. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.08 per share during the current fiscal year.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 0.43% and is forecasted to reach 0.55 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 2.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -15.14% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 1.50. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 0.59. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 2.62. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 212.44.
In the same vein, KTOS’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -0.07, a figure that is expected to reach 0.05 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 0.55 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS), its last 5-days Average volume was 1.2 million that shows plunge from its year to date volume of 1.33 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 51.49% While, its Average True Range was 0.60.
Raw Stochastic average of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc (KTOS) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 31.08%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 60.24% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 26.41% that was lower than 40.63% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
